Colts linebacker Mathis suspended four games for PED use

Colts' linebacker took fertility drug to have third child

11:23 PM,
May 16, 2014

Robert Mathis

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Mike Chappell
The Indianapolis Star

Indianapolis Colts linebacker Robert Mathis said his four-game suspension for violating the NFL policy on performance-enhancing substances was for taking a fertility drug to aid in having a third child.

The league announced Friday it has suspended Mathis without pay - $705,882 of his $3 million base salary - for the first month of the regular season. Mathis acknowledged in a statement that he did not confirm whether the drug was on the NFL's list of banned substances.

Mathis' agent, Hadley Engelhard, told ESPN that Mathis did not take a performance-enhancing drug, but "something that was a ...